Tag: #coloradomusic

CP S19 EP35 2025

Some of the best of Colorado from the past to the present. New music from Jeremy Facknitz, Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon, Patrick Dethlefs, and Cil.

YIKES! Taking a vacation and deciding to not do any business at all sure did put me behind the proverbial eight-ball … lots of catching up to do this week. Claire’s photo this week is probably the last Milky Way shot of the season. We sure were not dressed for this shot of the rising Milky Way with the setting moon over Bonham Reservoir on the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado. It got a bit colder than we expected and neither of us brought warm weather clothing! YIKES! But the changing fall colors during the day made it worth the trip.
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THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

THANKS to Roots Music Festival for supporting the show!

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

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Beast – Spaceman – Beast (1969)
Poco – What A Day – Pickin’ Up the Pieces (1969)
(D) Jeremy Facknitz – Burn the Maps (2025)

Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
The Infamous Stringdusters – Toward the Fray – Toward the Fray (2022)
Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
Wovenhand – Long Horn – The Laughing Stalk (2012)
Tierro Band with Bridget Law – Charity – Allurement (2019)
Rob Drabkin – My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
(D) Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Red Wine for Whiskey – Lonesome and Free (2025)

Euforquestra – Show Me The Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
The Fray – Same Thing – The Fray Is Back (2024)
Dave Gruisin Trio – Love Letters – Kaleidoscope (1965)

Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
Lothar and The Hand People – Machines – Presenting Lothar and the Hand People (1968)
(N) Patrick Detlefs – Smooth Wreck – Patty (2025)

Marfa – 66 (2024)
Augustus – Kick the Doors Down – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
Eva Rose King – Snapshot feat. Taylor Ashton – After Tale (2025)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Caves – Evening Machines (2018)
The Knew – Bang the Drum – Man Monster (2012)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
(D) CIL – Something Like This (2025)

Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Matt Skellenger – Connectivity – Subspace Transmission (2023)

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HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING SEPT 28 2025

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE
(5) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 2. PINK FUZZ – Animal SP Jul-25
(R) 2. SWEET VIRGINIA – Sweet Virginia EP Jun-25
(R) 3. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 4. KYLE HARVEY – Anywhere But Here LP Sep-25

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CP S19 EP34 2025

Some of the best from Colorado, from the past to the present. New music from Kyle Harvey, Blankslate, Pink Fuzz, Summer Bedhead.

YEP .. as promised, we’re officially on vacation in NC. That said, I prepped this post before we left 😉 NO HOT SPINS THIS WEEK. A goodnight picture from Claire at Highline Lake State Park. We went looking for the Northern Lights and shot the Big Dipper.

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

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Judy Collins – Hard Lovin’ Loser – In My Life (1966)
Judy Collins – Bird On a Wire – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968)
(D) Kyle Harvey – Neon Lights Are Good for the Blues (2025)

King Cardinal – Runaway (2022)
Gasoline Lollipops – The River – Kill the Architect (2025)
Drew Emmitt – Gypsy In My Soul – Long Road (2008)
Katie Herzig – Crazy – Weightless (2006)
Big Gigantic – Free Spirits – Fluorescence (2025)
(D) Blankslate – Lamp Post Hearts – Lookout Mountain Charley (2025)

Ambar Lucid – Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Teresa Suydam – Lost Bird – Lost Bird (2024)
Eric Lilley Trio – To Know Not – Swing Set (2025)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – I Saw The Light – Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Fishin’ In The Dark – Hold On (1987)
(D) Pink Fuzz – Animal (2025)

Hunter Stone – Mars – Portraits of the New/Old West, Vol. 2 (2024)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Sweet Virginia – I Don’t Know (2025)
Kerry Pastine and The Crime Scene – Let’s Do This Thing – Let’s Do This Thing (2015)
Lionel Young Band – Knock These Blues Around – On Our Way to Memphis (2012)
Delta Sonics – Concrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
(D) Summer Bedhead – Deep Breathe – The Body Needs a Break (2025)

Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Rootbeer Richie & The Reveille – Never Needed Me – Never Needed Me (2024)
Analog Son – Suspended Animation f. Eric Benny Bloom – Keep It Coming (2025)

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CP S16 EP21 2022

June 20, 2022 – To the dads and grandpas and men who raised or co-raised a child – Happy Father’s Day. Yeah, it’s Sunday and I’m at the desk working as usual.

A very good friend of mine got married this past week. Congratulations to Andy & Allie Sydow. Andy has a new album coming out soon produced by Anders Osborne.

Speaking of new releases, I bumped into longtime Colorado blues artist, songwriter and producer Nic Clark at the wedding party (he actually officiated). He let me know he’s got a new album coming out this year also.

TOP 5 #COMUSIC WK END 6/19/22

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, designed to benefit community/public and college radio stations and offering advanced search functions for artists and agents.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS – The Future LP
  2. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP
  3. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP
  4. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – Stress Dreams LP
  5. MACHETE MOUTH – Machete Mouth EP

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

HOUR 1

Townes Van Zandt – My Proud Mountains – Our Mother The Mountain (1969)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Buy For Me The Rain (1967)
(D) Cary Morin & Ghost Dog – Goin’ Down South (2022)

Andy Frasco & the U.N. – Dancin’ Around My Grave (2021)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
MaryLynn Gillaspie – Dolphin Dance – Secret Language (2022)
The Copper Children – Pity Party – Strange Illusion (2022)
The Apples In Stereo – Seems So – Tone Soul Evolution (1997)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Runaway Train – Riviera (2002)
(D) Dead On A Sunday – Stay (2022)

Porlolo – I QUIT (2019)
Giant Zero – Good Ol’ Days – Shakes Me (2021)
Keith Oxman, Jeff Jenkins, Todd Reid, Mark Simon – Khalid – This One’s For Joey (2022)

HOUR 2

Rick Roberts – Deliver Me – Windmills (1972)
Stephen Stills – It Doesn’t Matter – Manassas (1970)
(D) Jaiel – Sunshine Lovin’ (2022)

Sarah Slaton – Get Up (2021)
The Yawpers – Beale Street – American Man (2015)
Julian Fulco Perron – Not So Fast – In My Garden (2022)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)
Dianne Reeves – One For My Baby – Good Night, and Good Luck (Soundtrack) (2005)
The Mercury Project – Fenced In – Soapbox Jive (2004)
(D) Fantasy League – Blind (2022)

Lucy Daydream – Dizzy – Awake & Dreaming (2019)
Kind Hearted Strangers – Red & Blue – East-West (2021)
David Bernot – No Problems – Neverending Cycle (2022)

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